President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem want migrants who came here illegally to ‘self-deport’ back to the countries they came from.
As of Monday, the administration rolled out a new app as a substitute for CBP One app – previously used as a way to encourage a more orderly legal migration – to make it a vehicle for people here illegally to ‘self-deport.’
The new app is named ‘CBP Home’ – and intends to usher people out.
‘The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,’ the Homeland Security Secretary said in a statement.
‘If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return,’ Noem continued.
The new app lets people send a picture and register their ‘intent to depart’ – which could actually preserve their ability to come back to the country legally in the future.
CBP One was established during the Biden administration to allow migrants to set up online appointments with immigration officials, in part to take pressure off transit points and replace some illegal migration with more orderly legal entry.
The CBP One app no longer allows that function. The site currently states that, ‘In an effort to keep CBP.gov current, the archive contains content from a previous administration or is otherwise outdated.’
President Donald Trump continues to push for more deportations. His administration rolled out a new app allowing people to ‘self-deport’
‘The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system,’ Noem said.
Noem explained why migrants might willingly want to use the new app, even after their struggles to get here.
‘The CBP Home App gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return,’ she vowed in the statement.
The digital effort comes as the administration has been facing pressure over the pace of ‘mass deportations’ that Trump promised during the campaign.
‘We need money for more beds. We need money for more flights,’ border czar Tom Homan said at the White House last week.
‘We need Congress to step up and give us the money we need so President Trump can keep his promise to the American people,’ he said.
Homan told the New York Times he has told Trump that officials need to do more. ‘We need to increase the arrests. They’re not high enough,’ he said he told the president.
‘If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return,’ Homeland Security Secrdetary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
Trump, meanwhile, posted on his Truth Social site about apprehending the Columbia University student who led pro-Palestinian protests.
We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again,’ Trump wrote, pointing to the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, who he called a ‘Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student.’
Khalil is a Green Card holder who graduated with a Master’s degree in December. ”We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,’ posted Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
